Substitute the following for the amendment by ___ to the 
Casteel amendment to CSHB 2 (amendment packet, page 171):
	Amend the Casteel amendment to CSHB 2 (amendment packet, page 
171) by striking the text from page 1, line 2 of the amendment 
through page 2, line 23 of the amendment and substituting the 
following:
	(1)  On page 36, between lines 22 and 23, insert the 
following:              
	Sec.  42.3131.   USE OF CERTAIN REVENUE FOR ENHANCED 
COMPENSATION.  (a)  Beginning with the 2005–2006 school year, a 
school district must use at least 50 percent of all state and local 
maintenance operations revenue in excess of the level expended in 
the 2004–2005 school year for the purpose of providing enhanced 
compensation to classroom teachers, full-time librarians, 
full-time counselors certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21, and 
full-time school nurses.
	(b)  The commissioner shall adopt rules necessary to 
implement this section. The rules must ensure salaries provided to 
individuals listed in Subsection (a) are increased by the lesser 
of:
		(1)  $3,000 per year; or                                               
		(2)  the amount that can be provided using 44 percent of 
the increase in the district's maintenance and operations revenue 
from the 2004-2005 school year.
	(c)  A school district that paid employees an additional 
amount during each of the 2003–2004 and 2004-2005 school years to 
compensate for reductions made in the health coverage or 
compensation supplementation provided by former Article 3.50-8, 
Insurance Code, may apply to the commissioner for authority to 
provide a lesser amount of enhanced compensation than the amount 
otherwise required by this section, to the extent equitable 
considering the additional compensation provided by the district 
during the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 school years.